Just take the stunning lighting scheme, or their ability to make the sound of beautiful music hang in the air long enough for us to want to go in.

But the best "we can do what you can't" boast to southern festivals has to be the stunning Galuku Gallery.

Now in it's 5th year, the gallery takes advantage of Darwin's gorgeous dry season climate, by using palm trees as gallery walls, and hanging a series of Indigenous paintings each night.

Not only is the setting unique - this year the collection has a special significance for the people of Yirrkala, who created the paintings.

The series is based on drawings collected from Yirrkala by anthropologists in 1947.

Artists at the time were using traditional methods of painting on bark. They were asked to create more 'mobile' works from crayons and butchers paper. The results have since been lying in a Perth museum, and have largely remained unseen.

In January this year, staff from the Buku Larrnggay Art Centre in Yirrkala travelled to Perth to make copies of the works. Many of the descendants of the original artists still live in the area, and are talented artists themselves. They've been given the opportunity to connect with their ancestors, and re create their work.

"It's created a significant connection back to their forebares. Sometimes they never met their grandparents, so this is a tangible connection back to that generation. And also keeping the stories and the ceremonies going and keeping them strong", says Angus Cameron, who is the curator of the collection.

The collection is on show at the entrance to the Darwin Botanical Gardens throughout the festival.